The Tamil National Alliance has decided to boycott the Independence Day this year.
The alliance stated that the decision was taken due to the fact that the Tamil people have not yet received their freedom in a proper manner.
Mr. MA Sumanthiran, Member of Parliament of the Tamil National Alliance, commented in this regard.
“Immediately after independence, it was transformed into a majority system under the guise of democracy. That’s why other people living in this country did not get freedom. Sinhala Buddhist people thought that they got freedom. However, they also feel that they did not get freedom. That is why we would like to state that when the President celebrated the 75th Independence Day on February 4th, no one living in this country got that freedom. That’s why when we celebrate this, we declare it a black day and we start a movement to get the country’s freedom properly.”
